Yoshimi Yamashita

Yoshimi Yamashita (山下良美, Yamashita Yoshimi, born 20 February 1986) is an international football referee from Japan.[3][4] She was an official at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.[5][6] She also refereed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the match between the United States and Sweden. In 2022 she was one of the three women referees selected to officiate at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[7][8]For the first time, a female referee was elected for the FIFA World Cup. The number of people was 6 people.

Yoshimi Yamashita
Full name Yoshimi Yamashita
Born (1986-02-20) 20 February 1986
Tokyo, Japan
Domestic
Years League Role
2021–[1] J3 League Referee
2022– J1 League, J2 League Referee
International
Years League Role
2015-[2] FIFA listed Referee

Also during 2022, Yamashita became the first female referee to officiate a game in both the men's AFC Champions League and the J1 League, taking charge of Melbourne City's 2–1 win over Chunnam Dragons[9] and FC Tokyo's 2–0 win over Kyoto Sanga respectively.[10][11][12]She made her FIFA World Cup debut as Fourth Official in the Group F match against Belgium against Canada, and was the number Fourth Official in six games in this competition.[13]

References
  1. "Soccer D.B. : 2022 Yoshimi Yamashita Referee Result by Season". Soccer D.B. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  2. "FIFA 2022 Referring International Lists" (PDF). Digitalhub.fifa.com. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  3. "Yoshimi Yamashita » Matches as referee". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  4. "Japan - Y. Yamashita - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Women.soccerway.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  5. "FIFA Frauen-WM 2019 - Nachrichten - Aufgebot der Spieloffiziellen für die FIFA Frauen-WM 2019". FIFA.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  6. "FIFA.com" (PDF). Digitalhub.fifa.com. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  7. "Female referees to officiate at men's World Cup for the first time". The Guardian. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  8. "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: List of match officials" (PDF). FIFA.com. FIFA. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  9. "Soccer D.B. : 2022 Yoshimi Yamashita Referee Result by Season". Soccer D.B. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  10. "Yamashita ready to become Japan's first female World Cup referee". www.aljazeera.com. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  11. "Japanese top men's football league gets first-ever woman referee". South China Morning Post. 18 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  12. "Soccer D.B. : 2022 J1 League 22/09/18 F.C.Tokyo - Kyoto Sanga F.C. Results,Players". Soccer D.B. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  13. "fifa.com". 11 December 2022.


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